PERSONS REPRESENTED. LEONTES, King of Sicilia. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3. MAMILLIUS, son to Leontes. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1. CAMILLO, a Sicilian lord. Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 3. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 3. FLORIZEL, Son to Polixenes. Appears, Act IV. sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3. ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian lord. Appears, Act I. sc. 1. A Mariner. Appears, Act III. sc. 3. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1. Act III. sc. 2. Act V. sc. 3. PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. PAULINA, wife to Antigonus. Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act III. sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 3. Two Ladies attending on the Queen. Appear, Act II. sc. 1. MOPSA, a shepherdess. Appears, Act IV. sc. 3. DORCAS, a shepherdess. Appears, Act IV. sc. 3. Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a Dance; Shepherds, SCENE, SOMETIMES IN SICILIA; SOMETIMES IN BOHEMIA. We have no edition of the Winter's Tale' prior to that of the folio of 1623; nor was it entered upon the registers of the Stationers' Company previous to the entry by the proprietors of the folio. The original text, which is divided into acts and scenes, is remarkably correct. A WINTER'S TALE. ACT I. SCENE I-Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes' Palace. Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS. ARCH. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. CAM. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes hini. ARCH. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves: for, indeed,— CAM. 'Beseech you,― ARCH. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare-I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. CAM. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. ARCH. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. CAM. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now. Since their more mature dignities, and royal necessities, made separation of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attorneyed, |